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1399| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | 1399 | France [poetry] | Italian-born French writer Christine de Pisan writes her long poem L'Epitre au dieu d'amour/Letter to the God of Love, in which she defends women against the satire directed at them in earlier Medieval romances. The work is translated into English by Thomas Hoccleve in 1402. | | January - March 1399 | Mongol Empire, India [Mongol conquests (1206–1405)] | Timur Leng (Tamerlane), Grand Amir of the Mongols, continues his massacres and ravages in India, causing a famine. | | 29 September 1399 | England [administration] | King Richard II of England abdicates and is declared deposed in a quasi-parliamentary assembly. Henry, Duke of Lancaster claims and receives the crown as Henry IV. |
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